John 11:16 Therefore Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, so that we may die with Him."
Doesn’t Thomas give us hope? Sometimes we are like Thomas, the ever-doubting, pessimistic Thomas. But I wonder if there’s something more admirable revealed here. I don’t know if he was being facetious or not. “Yep, let’s all just go with Him. We’re all gonna die anyway.” Or if he seriously thought, “If he goes to Judea, they’re gonna kill Him, and we might as well die with Him as live without Him.” Have you come to the point that you would rather die with Jesus than live without Him? How often have you been faced with the fact that if you have to love a certain person, it’ll kill you? So rather than go with Jesus and die with Him, you decided to preserve your life and live without Him. Interesting thoughts, Yes? What do you think? Apparently the rest of the disciples thought about it, and decided it was better to die with Him than live without Him. What do we have to die to to live to love with Jesus?
